The Essentials of Bread Making - Course

Suitable for the complete novice and those with previous experience

Graham will take you from a complete novice or recipe follower to a level of competency and understanding that will allow you to create your own recipes to achieve the bread qualities of your personal preferences.

You will learn the fundamental theories that underpin all breadmaking.

During this course you will create both white and wholemeal breads as tin loaves and as oven bottom crusty types. While producing these doughs Graham will explain the ingredients involved and how the differing quantities produce different qualities in the finished product. You will learn how to use your senses to judge when the doughs are mixed, fermented, proved and baked. You gain moulding skills from a real baker that allows you to create bold and shapely loaves with good crumb structure.

(you even learn how to plait bread with up to 5 strands)

Courses run from 9.30am to 6pm ish.

A deposit of £30 can secure any course space, just email asking to be booked on to the date required and we will send payment details in due course.

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Aprons, ingredients and refreshments provided.

Start the day with some freshly baked cookies, locally ground and roasted coffee or a pot of tea, a range of fresh juices, fruit teas etc. maybe even some fresh Brioche.

We will keep you topped up with drinks throughout the day and at lunch you will stretch and top your own 12" sourdough pizza made with a sourdough starter from a 200 year old bakery on the island of Ischia (just off Naples).

at the end of the day you will taste and examine all of the breads made to see the qualities you should expect from each type.

After a hard days work you should take home 6 loaves made entirely by you individually from weighing the ingredients to packing them at the end it's all your own work (we work the ovens but the rest is entirely yours)